OR, Series 1, Vol. 32, Part 2, Page 566

Demopolis, May 1, 1864
 
General Wirt Adams
Canton
 
   I accept your offer to take charge of and push the immediate completion of the {Mississippi} Central railroad. You are hereby ordered to take complete control of that road and make all impressments necessary to drive the work through in the shortest time possible. Many interests demand this. You are ordered to do the same thing with the railroad from Canton to the lake {New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern RR}. I have just heard from Colonel Ranney in reply to inquiries on that subject. Furnish him with what he wants and put him in charge of it and press it to a rapid completion. Start several gangs of hands on it at different points; get the hands from below Jackson. Answer.
L. Polk
Lieutenant-General

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